How to Succeed as an Open Participant in ds106 (with really trying) So you have heard about this little open course on digital storytelling called ds106, but how do you go about being a part of it? Come on in… cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Conor Keller | fortysixtyphoto.com If you need more information about ds106, we have the requisite about page as well as a history of ds106 through the ages. First of all, in ds106, there are multiple levels of participation- but most importantly, it is designed so you can pick and choose the when and where. There are two approaches for being part of ds106, we will call “Fast and Easy” and “The Blogging Way”.
The Fast and Easy Plan To be “Fast and Easy” You can submit any work you do for the ds106 Assignments (described below) by completing a web form linked form each one. We also invite you to comment and provide feedback to the ds106ers who are blogging and to tune in and participate with us on twitter. The Blogging Way If you set up a new blog, please first write first welcome post. Set up Gravatar.
Your ds106 Handbook. #ds106 is #4life Here is your guide to ds106. Study it closely. Commit to your soul. image based on cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo by johntrainor: Comments Add a comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Get Into ds106 ds106 Current Sections ds106 in[SPIRE] Sign in to your account Forgot your password? Quick Start Guide to ds106. #ds106 is #4life cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by I like Details… Comments Add a comment Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Get Into ds106 ds106 Current Sections ds106 Handbook ds106 in[SPIRE] Sign in to your account Forgot your password? Packing List - ds106 docs. Must Haves for ds106 Below are things you should have packed and prepared for your ds106 experience.
A sturdy duffle bag is not required, nor is a shiny briefcase. But if you have one... For more details, see our Getting Started Guide Blog / RSS Feed UMW enrolled students will need to choose their own web domain name, so start looking for one that is available and works for you (we will provide instructions for setting up your domain and site). Try namecheck to see what domains as well as social media user names are possible.
Open participants can use any blogging platform as long as it provides an RSS feed (we nearly always recommend Wordpress ;-). Suggested platforms include: AvatarAs you are creating numerous accounts for this class we recommend that you use the same image file and username to represent you on all social media sites. The Toolbox For the work we do in visual, audio, and video editing, we do not specify software or tools you must use. Great Guides Multipurpose Tools Images. Week 1: Welcome to ds106 Bootcamp. Welcome to ds106. The first two weeks of the Fall 2012 course at the University of Mary Washington is going to be the basic training you will need to survive the rest of this course.
In fact, you will not be able to proceed beyond week 2 without achieving the basic proficiencies of owning your own web site, publishing to it via WordPress, and an appreciation for the creative work ahead of us. Are you ready? Weekly Media Before we jump into training, we will start with something that you will get every week: some media we want to to give your attention to as par of the inspiration and understanding what this course is about. You will be asked to reflect on this as part of your weekly summaries (see below). Next, consider both style and message about creativity of this RSA Animate created from a talk by author Stephen Johnson on Where Ideas Come From. Finally, take a look at this “Rules for Students and Teachers” by John Cage.
And Now the Bootcamp Part WordPress Starter Tips Permalinks. The Daily Create - Daily assignments to fuel your creativity. Ds106 Assignments:An anthology of digital media projects. In[SPIRE] Digital Storytelling - We jam econo. Radio. Ds106 Radio is a free form live streaming station that has been setup for this course, and it is being used as a platform to broadcast the work being created in the class, and a space for live broadcasts as well as for programming shows.
The whole point of this experiment is to encourage any and all members of the course (as well as beyond it) to produce something real for anyone who wants to tune in. It’s also provides a global, 24 hour/7 day-a-week happening for the creations of the course and much, much more. And more than anything, ds106 radio is place where anyone can submit their work and help program the course radio station in order to commune and share around works and ideas while at the same time making the web safe for democracy. What’s on the radio? Tune into the radio! Via How can I find out more information? The best place to find all the information is this group document where users have edited with any changes and updates.
Bumpers and commercials. Coming Soon! The Headless ds106 Course. Modified from cc licensed ( BY NC ) flickr photo by Lip Jin Lee: Since January 2011 ds106 has been taught at University of Mary Washington (UMW) and other institutions as a course for credit but also has at the same time been open to participants from the web (learn more about ds106). However, for someone new to ds106 as an open participant, it has not been very clear what they can do (we’ve made some suggestions as a starting point). Because UMW is not offering a formal course for Fall 2013, I had a thought– what if we set up a syllabus based on the previous iterations of class, set the weekly assignments as scheduled posts, and invited people to participate in it as a course w/o a teacher? Todd Conaway’s Imagination I never recall saying “headless”, not in ds106 fashion Todd Conaway takes it in an unexpected direction.
But believe me, decapitations are not part of the plan. How It Works Here is how it works. We Seek Helpers Not Teachers Really? Fall 2013: The Headless ds106 Syllabus. Course: Digital Storytelling: The Headless Course Instructor: NOBODY. There is no one in charge of this class, no leaders. Each week, experienced ds106ers may volunteer to coordinate that week's content (add link to shared Google Doc for volunteers) Location: The Internet Term: Fall 2013 Course Description The Wikipedia articles on Digital Storytelling defines it rather succinctly as "using digital tools so that ordinary people can tell their own real-life stories. " Digital Storytelling is an emerging term, one that arises from a grassroots movement that uses new digital tools to help ordinary people tell their own ‘true stories’ in a compelling and emotionally engaging form.
The term can also be a broader journalistic reference to the variety of emergent new forms of digital narratives (web-based stories, interactive stories, hypertexts, fan art/fiction, and narrative computer games). Course Objectives Course Materials Overall Course Process Participation Narrating your course experience. Storify · Make the web tell a story. 50+Ways - home. StoryIdeas. StoryMedia. StoryTools. Finding Flickr Photos. Visualizing cMOOC data: Extracting and analysing data from FeedWordPress part 1 #ds106 #NodeXL JISC CETIS MASHe. In a recent post I showed that how given some urls it was easy to generated a templated report as a word document.
This was partly done to show how blog posts from a JISC funded programme could be used to generate reports. One of the issues with this solution is not all the projects used WordPress as their blogging platform making it harder to get at some of the data. One thought I had was rather than dictating a particular platform JISC could aggregate all programme posts in a central database. This isn’t entirely new as at CETIS we already aggregate links to posts for selected programmes via our PROD database, the difference here would be as well as a link the post content would also be ingested making it easy to query and analysis the data from a single source.
The data source If JISC were hosting the data then in theory it would be a lot easier to get to. For a local Apache/MySQL/PHP server I used XAMPP Lite. The selected data export The refinement The data meets Gephi and NodeXL.